CHICAGO – If one looks at the spine of a Criterion Collection release, he will see a number that indicates the order in which films have been inducted into the most important DVD /Blu-ray series in history. With over 500 films in the collection (this week’s “Paths of Glory” is #538), one might wonder where it all began

Intel Taps End Users To Plan Future Open Data Centers Intel’s Cloud 2015 vision stretches beyond its corporate headquarters. On Wednesday, Intel launched a coalition of 70-plus businesses that represent more than $50 billion in annual IT investments — and who have cloud projects in the works

Koobface worm targets Mac users on Facebook, Twitter A new variant of the Koobface worm that targets Mac OS X and Linux as well as Windows is spreading through Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, security researchers warned today. Antivirus firms first reported the malware, dubbed “Boonana,” on Wednesday when Intego and SecureMac, two Mac-only security vendors, warned Mac OS X users that the worm was aimed at them. …

BackupAgent chief technology officer and co-founder Robbert van Geldrop said his company’s online backup service reduces churn, and increases average revenue per user for service provider partners. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — At the Thursday Parallels EMEA Partner Forum in London, BackupAgent ( www.backupagent.com ) chief technology officer and co-founder Robbert van Geldrop said that his company can be an ideal partner for delivering online backup, which is an essential service for many (if not most or all) businesses whose data of any sort is valuable. According to van Geldrop, BackupAgent provides an online backup solution through its network of service providers, telcos, and Web hosts as a Software as a Service solution, as well as an on these partners’ existing infrastructure if they wish

It’s a piece of Internet history compressed and distributed via BitTtorrent. Wednesday Archive Team said that it is archiving GeoCities in its entirety and will release the backed-up network in one file via BitTorrent. The news arrives just a year after Yahoo! shut down the free web hosting service

BackupAgent chief technology officer and co-founder Robbert van Geldrop said his company’s online backup service reduces churn, and increases average revenue per user for service provider partners. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — At the Thursday Parallels EMEA Partner Forum in London, BackupAgent ( www.backupagent.com ) chief technology officer and co-founder Robbert van Geldrop said that his company can be an ideal partner for delivering online backup, which is an essential service for many (if not most or all) businesses whose data of any sort is valuable

File-Sharing Site LimeWire Shut Down by Federal Court The lime has dried up. On Tuesday, music file-sharing site LimeWire was ordered shut down by a federal court

A screen shot of Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Savvis Federal Systems, a subsidiary of Savvis ( www.savvis.net ), announced on Thursday it has been awarded a contract by the US General Services Administration ( www.gsa.gov ) to provide cloud computing to federal, state, local and tribal government organizations.

A diagram that shows the configuration of Neutral Tandem’s Ethernet Exchange platform. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Interconnection services provider Neutral Tandem ( www.neutraltandem.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched its new, custom-developed online Web portal

Microsoft UK’s Bernie Franckel said there’s been a big change in the marketplace over the past few years, which will enable IT service providers to take the place of traditional, in-house IT. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Bernie Franckel, who heads Microsoft’s partner hosting and cloud sales in the UK, said at Parallels EMEA Partner Forum in London that we’re currently in a period where businesses can get greater value out of their IT infrastructure, and where companies without capital, nor expertise, will be able to have their own IT services. “In the past three years, and in the last year particularly, there’s been a big change in the marketplace,” Franckel said.